How to love the iPad
Kindle DX 9.7” - $489.00
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1024x768 color display upgrade - $1.00
Internet browsing upgrade - $1.00
iPod w/16GB upgrade - $1.00
Run iPhone apps upgrade - $1.00
1Gz A4 processor upgrade - $1.00
H.264 720P HD video upgrade - $1.00
Bluetooth upgrade - $1.00
10hr battery upgrade - $1.00
Multi-touch display upgrade - $1.00
Digital compass/accelerometer - $1.00
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Your cost: iPad $499.00
It will replace my Kindle, and 3rd party development will extend the device to do things we can’t even dream up right now. I, for one, welcome our new iPad overlord - but then again I’m a card carrying fanboy.
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“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we’re going to die. ‘Be of good heart,’ cry the dead artists out of the living past. ‘Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.’ Maybe a man’s name doesn’t matter all that much.”
- Orson Welles, F For Fake
- Device will have a virtual keyboard.
- A camera will be included, intended to allow multiple users to have different profiles on the device triggered by face recognition.
- The New York Times, Conde Nast, HarperCollins Publishers and News Corp. appear to be on board with selling content on the device through a virtual news stand that resembles iTunes.
- A “best of TV” subscription service that would allow users to purchase packages of four to six shows from each network that they could watch on demand.
Of course the $1,000 question remains: will it be more of a MacBook Touch with e-reader capability? Or an 11-inch iPod Touch with e-reader capability?
It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
My Top 50 Movies of the 00’s
I probably forgot some, but these are my most enjoyed films from this past decade.
1) Memento
2) Avatar
3) Man on Wire
4) Into the Wild
5) Almost Famous
6) Big Fish
7) No Country for Old Men
8) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9) Slumdog Millionaire
10) Wall-E
11) Oldboy
12) Let the Right One In
13) District 9
14) The Departed
15) The Dark Knight
16) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
17) Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
18) Donnie Darko
19) The Wrestler
20) The Bourne Ultimatum
21) Little Miss Sunshine
22) Collateral
23) Up
24) Children of Men
25) High Fidelity
26) Grizzly Man
27) Cloverfield
28) 28 Days Later…
29) Eastern Promises
30) The Royal Tenenbaums
31) Knocked Up
32) The Incredibles
33) The 40-Year Old Virgin
34) Ocean’s 11
35) Shaun of the Dead
36) The Prestige
37) Iron Man
38) American Psycho
39) Gran Torino
40) A History of Violence
41) Star Trek
42) A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
43) The Darjeeling Limited
44) Stranger than Fiction
45) Millions
46) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
47) Casino Royale
48) Zodiac
49) Forgetting Sarah Marshall
50) Anchorman
